Frederick Community College EN102-ONL2 ~ Composition and Literature On-line Syllabus FALL 2011
Class begins: 08/22/11	Class ends: 12/03/11	Last Day to Withdraw: 11/02/11

Instructor Information:
Name: Mary Lease	Office: Online
E-mail: mlease@frederick.edu	English Dept. Phone Number: 304 535 2555
Contact Hours: email and by appointment for in-person meeting	Campus Mail Box #: 811

Course Information:
Credits: 3
On-campus Meetings: 0	On-campus Exams: 1
Prerequisites: EN 101	Co-requisites: None

Course Description:

EN102 reinforces, through an examination of literature, the reading, writing, critical thinking, and information literacy skills introduced in freshman composition. By exploring literary texts from fiction, poetry, and drama, students learn to clarify their own values and identities as well as develop a better understanding of ideas and cultures beyond their own experience.

Core Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, students will demonstrate

1. informed critical responses to the fiction, poetry, and drama genres and to the human values they express through an awareness of literature as both a record and a reflection of culture

2. an understanding and interpretation of social values by identifying and evaluating moral issues and conflicts, by displaying academic honesty, and by valuing lifelong learning.

3. college-level communication skills and appropriate documentation of source material

4.critical thinking skills in the analysis, comparison, synthesis, interpretation, and evaluation of literature and the techniques used by writers to create it.

5.appropriate use of literary terminology.

6.the value of literature as evidence of a multicultural society expressing the universality and diversity of the human experience and the importance and responsibility of the individual.

7.the use of technology to format papers and conduct research.

Instructional Methods:

EN102-ONL will require you to read critically and formulate well-written responses that you share with the instructor and with other students. The majority of that writing will come in the form of exercises that you will compose at home and share online. You will also write regular responses to other students in class via the Discussion Board.

Methods include on-line lecture notes, class discussion (via Discussion Board), peer conferencing (via Discussion Board), collaborative learning (via Discussion Board), instructor comments on written work, a plagiarism unit, and on-line and/or library research for a documented paper.

 How the course is organized:

Although this is an online course, this is NOT a self-paced course. There are due dates for each assignment. See Evaluation Methods to see how your grades will be affected by late assignments. It is your responsibility to let the instructor know if you have run into difficulties right away – see Participation Policy.

Each week you will find announcements and assignments posted on the Blackboard site. The instructor will guide you through the literature you read, the text material you study, and the questions to which you respond. You will read the assigned material, think critically about what you have read, and participate in class discussions via the Discussion Board forums. During the semester, you will write two analysis papers, create a poetry project, write a documented research paper, and complete the three online exams identified in your syllabus. The one time you are required to come to the campus is to complete the writing sample.

Many assignments, essays and projects are completed individually and turned in via Blackboard’s Assignment process. Quizzes are completed online via Blackboard. Discussion Board assignments give students the opportunity to interact and learn to evaluate each others’ work/comments effectively, accurately, respectfully, and in a professional manner. All assignments are covered in Assignments in Blackboard.

Text(s) and Course Materials:

Pike, David, and Ana M. Acosta. Literature: A World of Writing. Boston: Longman, 2010. Print.

Progress Report:

By the end of the 3rd week of the semester, you will have an opportunity to evaluate your progress in this course and decide if you need to make any adjustments (additional study, tutoring, conference with instructor) to assure your success in this course.

Evaluation Methods:
Tests / Papers / Projects / Participation	Point Value	Final Grade Scale
Integrity Pledge submission	10
On-Campus Writing Sample	10	900 – 1000 = A
Discussion Boards (14 @ 10 points each)	140
Reading Quizzes (12 @ 10 points each)	120	800 – 899 = B
MLA & Anti-Plagiarism Unit, 2 tests	50
Fiction Unit Test, 3 parts	100	700 – 799 = C
Fiction Essay	100
Drama Unit Test, 3 parts	100	600 – 699 = D
Drama Essay	100
Documented Research Paper	170	599 & below = F
Poetry Unit Test, 2 parts	100
TOTAL	1000
If the graded performance for online assignments differs significantly from the grade average for proctored assignments, the instructor reserves the right to administer additional tests. Late assignments are penalized 20% for two days, and receive a grade of zero thereafter.

Student Services

A variety of services are available to assist students in succeeding at FCC. Students can learn more about these services by visiting the Student Services web page: http://www.frederick.edu/student_services/index.aspx.

Students with disabilities who are in need of accommodations or who have questions related to disabilities services should contact the Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) office at 301-846-2408. Students can learn more about these services by visiting the Services for Students with Disabilities web page: http://www.frederick.edu/student_services/disability.aspx.

Participation Policy:

1. The course level class participation policy is designed to support the learning process.

2. The course level class participation policy is designed within the framework of the approved class formats for online classes.

3. To maintain the highest quality of academic work, the course level class participation policy encourages and expects the student to participate fully in all course activities.

4. In case of serious illness, emergency, religious holidays, or participation in official college functions, students remain responsible for completing the requirements of the course.

5. Class Participation affects the grade of the student. The course syllabus identifies measurable units of class participation in course activities such as discussion board responses and completion of the required essays, projects, and modules.

Email Policy:

With the exception of MOL students, all FCC students will receive and are expected to use their FCC email address for correspondence with faculty and staff at the college. Students can establish and access their FCC email accounts at https://myfcc.frederick.edu. Email is an instructional tool essential to student-instructor and student-student communication. In the Blackboard environment by default, your email address is available to all students in this course.

However, students are permitted to use email addresses of other students in this course only for the purpose and the duration of this course.

The instructor can be expected to respond to regular student email inquiries (grades, posted assignments, and tests excluded) within the time frame of 24 to 48 hours.

Academic Integrity:

Work in this course is subject to the provisions of the FCC Code of Academic Integrity. Plagiarism in any form will not be tolerated. As a student, it is your job to practice academic honesty at ALL times. Make sure that all sources, particularly Internet sources, get proper credit for quotations, paraphrases, and ideas. More information about this and the Student Conduct Code are available at http://www.frederick.edu/student_services/studentpolicies.aspx

You must send your Academic Integrity Pledge to the instructor. The form is available at http://courses.frederick.edu/_utilities/regform.htm

Assignment Guidelines

All written assignments (essay and poetry project) must be turned in on time via Blackboard – assignments WILL NOT BE accepted via Email.

It is important to log into Blackboard regularly and meet the deadlines. To receive full credit for any of your work, you must submit it ON TIME and in the CORRECT LOCATION. All assignments are due by midnight on the date specified. For those where a specific due date is not given, it is due Saturday of that week no later than midnight.

Late written assignments lose 20% of their credit for two days; after that they earn no credit. All other workshop assignments lose 20% of their credit for two days if late; after that they earn no credit.

All assignments must be submitted according to the course guidelines.

Assignments are due by midnight of the date due. Students who find themselves more than a week behind will not be able to make up missed work. Instructor reserves the right to not accept late assignments.

Topical Outline (ONLINE COURSES)

Key to Abbreviations: WOW = Literature: A World of Writing BB = Blackboard document

Week	Subject	Content
Week 1	Module 1: Introduction Read: WoW 02-06 WoW 06-14 BB – “Reading Literature” WoW 07 – Fernandez – “Wrong Channel” WoW 10 – Plath – “Metaphors” WoW 12 – Shields – “Absence”	Submit the Integrity Pledge Begin the MLA & Anti-plagiarism unit, due at the end of Module 03 Discussion Board
Week 2	Module 2: Genre & Fiction Read: WoW 114-15 – “The Conventions of Genre” WoW 118 – “Comparing Genres” WoW 131-38 – “What Is Fiction?” WoW 116-17 – Atwood – “Happy Endings” WoW 118-21 – Momaday – From The Way to Rainy Mountain WoW 133 – Powell – “A Gentleman’s C” WoW 278-82 – Walker – “Everyday Use” WoW 624-28 – Bambara – “The Lesson”	On-Campus Writing Sample (required) Module 02 Quiz Discussion Board Work on Anti-plagiarism unit
Week 3	Module 3: Fiction Read: WoW 250-58 – O’Connor – “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” WoW 519-25 – Alexie – “This Is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” WoW 358-62 – Updike – “A&P”	Module 03 Quiz Discussion Board Due: MLA & Plagiarism Assignment
Week 4	Module 4: Fiction Read: WoW 435-42 – Hawthorne – “Young Goodman Brown” WoW 442-43 – Chopin – “The Story of an Hour” WoW 444-46 – Hemingway – “Hills Like White Elephants” WoW 447-56 – O’Brien – “The Things They Carried”	Begin the Fiction Essay Module 04 Quiz Discussion Board
Week 5	Module 5: Fiction Read: WoW 507-11 – Welty – “A Worn Path” WoW 534-38 – Poe – “The Cask of Amontillado” WoW 538-43 – Faulkner – “A Rose for Emily”	Module 05 Quiz Discussion Board Continue the Fiction Essay
Week 6	Module 6: Literary Devices Read: WoW 210-23 – “Working with Literary Devices” WoW 384-87 includes: · Teasdale – “The Look” · Shakespeare – “Sonnet 128” · Shakespeare – “Sonnet 116” · Shakespeare – “Sonnet 29” · Donne – “The Flea”	Fiction Unit Test (3 parts) Submit the Fiction Essay
Week 7	Module 7: Drama Read: WoW – 139 & 146-56 – “What Is a Play?” WoW 139-45 – Glaspell – Trifles WoW 189-93 – Beckett – Krapp’s Last Tape	Module 07 Quiz Discussion Board
Week 8	Module 8: Drama - Hamlet Read: WoW 285-300 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 1 WoW 300-311 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 2	Begin the Drama Essay Module 08 Quiz Discussion Board
Week 9	Module 9: Drama - Hamlet Read: WoW 194-95 – “Writing About a Performance” WoW 199 – “Types of Essays About Performance” WoW 311-325 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 3 WoW 325-335 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 4	Module 09 Quiz Discussion Board Continue the Drama Essay
Week 10	Module 10: Drama - Hamlet Read: WoW 335-46 - Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act 5	Discussion Board Drama Unit Test (3 parts) Submit the Drama Essay
Week 11	Module 11: Genre & Poetry Read: WoW 114-21 -- “On the Conventions of Genre” WoW 122-123 – “What is Poetry? WoW 123 – Coleridge – “Metrical Feet” WoW 175 – Blake – “London” WoW 457 – Donne – “Death Be Not Proud” WoW 652-53 – Basho & Wright – Haikus	Module 11 Quiz Discussion Board Last day to WITHDRAW November 2, 2011
Week 12	Module 12: Poetry (Translations) Read WoW 232-38 – “Reading & Writing Between Languages” Includes: · Catullus – “Poem 85” & “Translation of Poem 85” · Lovelace, Landor, Pound, Whigham, Martin, Bidart, Sagan – “Translating Catullus”	Module 12 Quiz Discussion Board Begin the Documented Research Paper
Week 13	Module 13: Poetry Read: WoW 176 – Frost – “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” WoW 525-26 – Frost – “Mending Wall” WoW 655-56 – Bishop – “The Fish” WoW 654 – H.D. – “The Sea Rose” WoW 658 – Hopkins – “Inversnaid” WoW 660 – Merwin – “Rain at Night”	Module 13 Quiz Discussion Board Continue work on Research Paper
Week 14	Module 14: Poetry Read: WoW 238 – Owen – “Dulce et Decorum Est” WoW 458 – Thomas – “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” WoW 459 – Dickinson – “Because I could not stop for Death” WoW 460 – Dickinson – “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” WoW 553 – Smith – “Not Wavings but Drowning”	Module 14 Quiz Discussion Board Submit the Research Paper
Week 15	Module 15: Poetry Read: WoW 382-83 – Uruttiran – “What She Said …” WoW 387 – Baca – “Spliced Wire” WoW 388-89 – Poe – “Annabel Lee” WoW 389 – Eliot – “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” WoW 620-21 – Gang – “Red Azalea on the Cliff”	Discussion Board Poetry Unit Test (2 parts)

NOTE: Your instructor reserves the right to make changes to this outline as needed.

Calendar of Due Dates
Date		Assessment	POINTS
Wednesday	Aug 24	Integrity Pledge submitted	10
Wednesday	Aug 24	DB for Module 01	10
Week of	Aug 31 – Sept 6	On-Campus Writing Sample	10
Wednesday	Aug 31	DB for Module 02, Part I	5
Saturday	Sept 3	DB for Module 02, Part II	5
Saturday	Sept 3	Reading Quiz for Module 02	10
Wednesday	Sept 7	DB for Module 03, Part I	5
Saturday	Sept 10	DB for Module 03, Part II	5
Saturday	Sept 10	Reading Quiz for Module 03	10
Wednesday	Sept 14	DB for Module 04, Part I	5
Wednesday	Sept 14	Anti-Plagiarism Test, Part I	20
Saturday	Sept 17	DB for Module 04, Part II	5
Saturday	Sept 17	Reading Quiz for Module 04	10
Saturday	Sept 17	Anti-Plagiarism Discussion Board, Part II	30
Wednesday	Sept 21	DB for Module 05, Part I	5
Saturday	Sept 24	DB for Module 05, Part II	5
Saturday	Sept 24	Reading Quiz for Module 05	10
Saturday	Oct 1	Fiction Unit Test, Parts I & II	70
Saturday	Oct 1	Fiction Unit Test, Part III	30
Saturday	Oct 1	Fiction Essay Assignment	100
Wednesday	Oct 5	DB for Module 07, Part I	5
Saturday	Oct 8	DB for Module 07, Part II	5
Saturday	Oct 8	Reading Quiz for Module 07	10
Wednesday	Oct 12	DB for Module 08, Parts I & II	5
Saturday	Oct 15	DB for Module 08, Part III	5
Saturday	Oct 15	Reading Quiz for Module 08	10
Wednesday	Oct 19	DB for Module 09, Parts I & II	5
Saturday	Oct 22	DB for Module 09, Part III	5
Saturday	Oct 22	Reading Quiz for Module 09	10
Wednesday	Oct 26	DB for Module 10, Part I	5
Wednesday	Oct 26	Reading Quiz for Module 10	10
Saturday	Oct 29	DB for Module 10, Part II	5
Saturday	Oct 29	Drama Unit Test, Parts I & II	70
Saturday	Oct 29	Drama Unit Test, Part III	30
Saturday	Oct 29	Drama Essay	100
Wednesday	Nov 2	DB for Module 11, Part I	5
Saturday	Nov 5	DB for Module 11, Part II	5
Saturday	Nov 5	Reading Quiz for Module 11	10
Wednesday	Nov 9	DB for Module 12, Part I	5
Saturday	Nov 12	DB for Module 12, Part II	5
Saturday	Nov 12	Reading Quiz for Module 12	10
Wednesday	Nov 16	DB for Module 13, Part I	5
Saturday	Nov 19	DB for Module 13, Part II	5
Saturday	Nov 19	Reading Quiz for Module 13	10
Thanksgiving Break – no modules due this week
Wednesday	Nov 30	DB for Module 14, Part I	5
Saturday	Dec 3	DB for Module 14, Part II	5
Saturday	Dec 3	Reading Quiz for Module 14	10
Sunday	Dec 4	Documented Research Paper	170
Tuesday	Dec 6	DB for Module 15, Part I	5
Wednesday	Dec 7	DB for Module 15, Part II	5
Saturday	Dec 10	Poetry Unit Test, Part I	20
Saturday	Dec 10	Poetry Unit Test, Part II	80
			1000 points total